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Digital ID cards would serve society no more than dog licensing, with precisely the same deficiencies.
Labour is a marionette of the deep state having no culturally acceptable ideas of its own.
Not progressive at all for its membership.
(YouTube screenshot - start at the penultimate section if too long for you)
It is destined to poll like Hollande's socialists in a general election - behind the LibDems and Your Party and only ahead of the Greens.
Why so?
There is evidence that the electorate has already decided to vote tactically against Labour in a general election.
It worked against the Conservatives so it will work against Labour.
In binary seats which have alternated between Conservatives and Labour the tactical voting will be in favour of the Conservatives as the first past the post system makes it a safe bet.
In seats where they has been a tendency towards a progressive majority the tactical voting will be in favour of the LibDems, especially as they are the only party to have come out against digital ID cards.
Labour never controlled in Cambridge, for instance, until ID cards were effectively dead. The issue also kept the Tories in the game.
In seats that like upsets, the tactical voting will be in favour of Reform. So expect them to do well in the north east, Yorkshire and Lancashire.
No other party will come out in favour of digital ID unless they want to reduce their chances.
[Subsequently twelve political parties have made a statement opposing digital ID, including five in Northern Ireland.
The parallel with the poll tax is a good one. It could pass legislatively but prove unworkable, perhaps particularly so in N.I. Once on the statute book, though, whether it stayed or went, the consequent political damage to the governing party would be greater than with the poll tax.]
If the digital ID cards are in place by a general election, a party could see it as a Brexit style issue: it would promise a referendum on their withdrawal.
As with Brexit, a win would also be a mandate to roll back the centrist state. Both the right and the far left were generally in favour of Brexit in parliament.
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Architectural painter Nicolaes de Gyselaer, hall with musicians and dogs, 1621, founder's bequest Fitzwilliam Museum
Yes, computer model santas producing the wrong predictions leading to the wrong actions for foot and mouth, Covid and climate?
This will be a serious problem when AI starts doing the predictions - it unimaginatively relies on what went before.
2020
2025
What is loosely called the lockdown period produced some vibrant critique music but it takes retrospect to see it was a time of massive administrative class overreach, rights abuse and delusion of crowds, pushing aside two centuries of observational medicine.
One might let it pass but it was but a trial run. The medicine aspect apart, it is much worse today. Will music be up to it this time?
At the time he walked out, the real message was rather immature - save the NHS from falling over rather than save life.
The public and the politicians were too trusting of what the administrative class (better known in America as the deep state) served them up. [The NHS has effectively fallen over since anyway.]
Okay, but what if the messages now are immature?
It is interesting to read Andrew Roberts, in Napoleon the Great, write:
Hawkesbury [Lord Liverpool] told Otto [French ambassador] repeatedly that Britain could do nothing to curtail 'the liberty of the press as secured by the constitution of the country'.
It is interesting that in 1802 this is stated most clearly as part of the constitution, to the pre-eminent continental power, by a statesman.
Napoleon ended up having to ban British newspapers.
The most memorable clip of the Brexit negotiations period was the terror showing on the senior EU officials' faces as the British press approached them in an EU building to ask what might be intrusive questions.
So it has been pretty immature to restrict the liberty of the press as it significantlly reduces Britain's clout as a power.
What is published now in the legacy media probably has as much reach (probably less) than what was Gazetted then.
It is but a drop in the ocean of the immaturity.